It depends on what type of caterpillar you are talking about. For instance, the woolly bear (or worm) stays in its cocoon from an average of ten to fifteen days. There are oth â¦ er ranges, of course, but that is because woolly bear caterpillars are so common throughout the world.
Temperature is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance.
State The Kinetic Molecular Theory. The Kinetic Molecular Theory states that the average energy of molecules is proportional to absolute temperature as illustrated by the following equation: eK=32RNAT where ek is the average translation kinetic energy, R is the gas constant, NA is Avogadro's number, and T is temperature in Kelvins. Since R and NA are constants, this means that the Kelvin temperature (T) of a gas is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of its molecules.